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Starlizard Integrity Services identifies 79 suspicious football matches played globally in first half of 2023

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35% of suspect games took place in three countries
21% related to First Half Only betting markets
LONDON, Aug. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — New data from sports betting integrity specialists Starlizard Integrity Services (SIS) has identified 79 football matches played around the world between 1 January and 30 June 2023 as “suspicious”. Of these, 28 (35%) took place in just three countries, with one of those countries accounting for 12 integrity alerts (15%).
Matches analysed by SIS are categorised as “suspicious” when they are found to have suspect betting patterns associated with them that may be indicative of match-fixing. While the level of suspicion will vary across matches depending on the nature and amount of evidence discovered, SIS believes that all matches so identified would warrant further investigation.
The 79 matches considered “suspicious” in the first half of 2023 represent 0.48% of a total of 16,336 football matches analysed by SIS during the period. This compares with 84 “suspicious” matches (0.45%) from a total of 18,845 games analysed for the same period in 2022. 
The SIS 2023 first-six-months data revealed that:
28 of the “suspicious” matches (35%) came from three countries, with one country having 12 integrity alerts and another two countries having eight alerts each.24 different countries had at least one integrity alert in a domestic men’s competition. Domestic league competitions below the top-level accounted for 48 “suspicious” matches (61%).40 of the “suspicious” matches (51%) were played in the UEFA confederation region, with 11 matches (14%) taking place in the CONMEBOL confederation region.21 matches (27%) were flagged due to suspicious betting patterns in First Half Only betting markets.11 (14%) of the “suspicious” games were international matches – i.e. matches that do not fall within a specific country in any of the prescribed confederation regions, such as international fixtures, cross-border club competitions, and all club team friendly matches.Nine of the “suspicious” matches (11%) were non-competitive club friendlies.Affy Sheikh, Head of Starlizard Integrity Services, commented:
“These statistics show that suspicious betting activity and the spectre of match-fixing continue to hang over football – and are not about to go away. The fact that we’ve seen similar levels of suspicion over the past three years, serves to emphasise that concerted ongoing efforts and stronger collaboration amongst anti-corruption stakeholders are required to tackle this persistent problem in the beautiful game.
“The latest data also points to an increase in suspicious activity in more specialised markets, such as First Half Only betting. This highlights the variety of markets in which attempts at match manipulation may occur. Unfortunately, the increase in integrity alerts from lower domestic leagues again demonstrates the vulnerability of those involved in lower-funded leagues and competitions where continued vigilance and education are of upmost importance.”
About Starlizard Integrity Services
Starlizard Integrity Services (SIS) is the specialist integrity division of Starlizard, the London-based sports betting and data consultancy. Starlizard’s detailed understanding of sport and sporting performance, as well as its active involvement in betting markets, affords a unique perspective, enabling the company to know better than anyone else in the world when betting markets and sporting contests look wrong. Starlizard has been producing independent integrity services for sports governing bodies and associations since 2010, and established SIS in 2017 as a dedicated resource to focus entirely on this work. Combining its deep insight into how betting markets should behave with detailed on-pitch performance data analysis and research, SIS is ideally placed to identify suspicious matches and betting patterns. For more information, visit www.starlizardintegrity.com
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Gcore Named as a Major Player in IDC MarketScape Report for European Public Cloud Infrastructure (IaaS) 2024

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LUXEMBOURG, Oct. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Gcore, the global edge AI, cloud, network, and security solutions provider, today announced that it has been positioned as a Major Player by industry research firm IDC, in its recent  “IDC MarketScape: European Public Cloud Infrastructure (IaaS) 2024” (document number:# EUR151035423, August 2024) report.

The report evaluates public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers in Europe and covers qualifying global and regional cloud providers that offer IaaS across Europe (including CEE as well as Western Europe).
“We believe being recognised by the IDC MarketScape as a Major Player is a testament to our commitment to delivering high-quality edge cloud computing services that empower our customers to securely build and scale their applications,” commented Andre Reitenbach, CEO at Gcore. “Our services prioritize performance, security, and scalability, enabling businesses to grow without the complexities of infrastructure management, so they can focus on innovation and business outcomes.”
Gcore operates a global network with 180+ points of presence and 50+ strategically placed cloud locations, offering low-latency access to key markets. The platform supports a variety of workloads, providing solutions from virtual machines to bare metal servers, delivering flexible compute capacity for both standard and high-performance applications.
 
About IDC MarketScape
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.
 
About Gcore 
Gcore is a global edge AI, cloud, network, and security solutions provider. Headquartered in Luxembourg, with a team of 600 operating from ten offices worldwide, Gcore provides solutions to global leaders in numerous industries. Gcore manages its global IT infrastructure across six continents, with one of the best network performances in Europe, Africa, and LATAM due to the average response time of 30 ms worldwide. Gcore’s network consists of 180 points of presence worldwide in reliable Tier IV and Tier III data centers, with a total network capacity exceeding 200 Tbps. Learn more at gcore.com
 
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Huawei Austria Celebrates Five Years of TECH4ALL Nature Conservation at Biodiversity Forum

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VIENNA, Oct. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Huawei hosted the Innovations for Biodiversity Forum this week to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Huawei’s TECH4ALL digital inclusion initiative and share insights into how technology is revolutionizing biodiversity protection.  

Launched in 2019 and aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, TECH4ALL leverages technology and partnerships to create a positive impact in four domains: environment, education, health, and development. In the environment domain, Huawei TECH4ALL has run nature conservation projects in 53 protected areas with global and local partners in forest, wetland, and ocean ecosystems around the world.
“Over the past five years, Huawei’s TECH4ALL program has demonstrated how technology can be a powerful force for good, addressing global challenges in environmental protection, education, and digital inclusion,” said Harvey Zhang, CEO of Huawei Austria.
The Innovations for Biodiversity Forum focused on TECH4ALL nature conservation projects in Europe, including findings of biodiversity monitoring in the wetland ecosystem around Austria’s Lake Neusiedl.
The quality of the reed bed habitats in this ecosystem is declining, negatively impacting amphibian species, mammals, and bird life. Since 2021, audio monitoring devices have collected more than 2 million individual audio files of 69 bird species.
This vast dataset will help develop a conservation management plan for the ecosystem, including controlled fire management to rejuvenate aging reed beds and strengthen overall biodiversity by understanding the habitat preferences of the individual species studied.
“Hardly any reed harvesting has been done in recent decades, which has had a negative impact on the state of the reed belt. The study investigated whether targeted fires could have an effect similar to that of harvesting. To do this, areas that show different age conditions due to fires were compared,” said Dr. Christian Schulze from the Department of Biodiversity Research at the University of Vienna. “The research showed that older reed beds harbor the greatest diversity of bird species. However, the analysis of individual species also shows that controlled reed fires have positive aspects.”
The forum explored a similar TECH4ALL monitoring project in Poland to build a more complete picture of biodiversity in the Białowieża National Park ecosystem, also with the aim of developing targeted conservation measures.
Greek startup PROBOTEK introduced a forest fire-prevention solution that uses sensors, drones, AI, and 5G to detect and transmit real-time video-footage of fire risks, which are on the rise in parts of Europe due to climate change and rising temperatures. The project is designed to enable emergency response in the first ‘golden 15 minutes’ of a forest fire being detected, notify residents of evacuation routes, and plan routes for fire trucks and ambulances.
The forum also looked at the success of an AI-based filtering system designed to protect Norway’s wild Atlantic salmon from possible extinction due to the invasive pink salmon species. The pilot project in 2023 successfully filtered out 6,000 invasive salmon, and expectations are high that the solution, the world’s first of its type, can be scaled out across Norway’s river systems.
On day two of the forum, the media delegation in attendance visited Lake Neusiedl to learn how the TECH4ALL solution works in practice and the transformative effect that intelligent digital technologies can have on nature conservation.
About Huawei TECH4ALL
TECH4ALL is Huawei’s long-term digital inclusion initiative. Enabled by innovative technologies and partnerships, TECH4ALL aims to promote inclusion and sustainability in the digital world.
For more information, visit the Huawei TECH4ALL website: https://www.huawei.com/en/tech4all 
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Fivecast launches Discovery to tackle global threats with OSINT innovation.

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ADELAIDE, Australia, Oct. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Responding directly to an increased global threat environment, Fivecast, the global provider of market-leading open-source intelligence (OSINT) solutions, has announced the launch of a Discovery solution that empowers analysts and investigators across both the Government and Corporate sectors to uncover intelligence insights faster to help protect communities and businesses.

Fivecast Discovery automates and accelerates the processes of digital footprinting, information verification and identity resolution. These capabilities significantly enhance the crucial initial stages of intelligence investigations which can typically be impeded by huge data volumes, complex threats and resource constraints, causing insights to be missed.
Learn more here.
Taming a Sea of Open-Source Data
Fivecast provides unmatched access to millions of publicly and commercially available data sources including news streams, search engines, people and company databases, social media, sanctions, watch lists, curated datasets, dark web and data leaks. Investigators can conduct discovery across billions of data points including more than 8 billion people records and 28 billion unique identifiers, 9 billion accounts and social handles, 280 million companies, 10 billion data leaks, 200 million dark web records and many more.
A one-stop shop for intelligence teams
Fivecast’s new Discovery solution is seamlessly integrated within the market-leading Fivecast ONYX platform, resulting in a complete OSINT solution that covers the end-to-end intelligence investigation cycle.
Fivecast CEO & Co-founder, Dr. Brenton Cooper, commented, “Our Discovery solution provides both broad and fast search and discovery with the ability to seamlessly pivot into deep, targeted data collection, AI-enabled risk assessment and content analysis. This is a unique combination of capabilities that drives better analytical outputs and improves efficiencies for our customers across the national security, corporate security, financial crime risk management and due diligence market sectors.”
Driving Essential Insights Faster
Fivecast Discovery enables analyst resources to be optimized, reducing manual complexity, and increasing search efficiency. Starting a search in just three clicks, results are delivered in seconds. Analysts can expand on searches from thousands of pivot points and seamlessly springboard into deep AI-enabled investigations with a simple click.
OSINT Innovation For A Safer WorldThis latest product release from Fivecast showcases the company’s commitment to delivering cutting edge open-source intelligence technology innovations to help their customers enable a safer world, as evidenced by the recent award from the Australian Government Department of Defence for innovation in Science and Technology.
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